Iran, the last bastion against the eschatological madness of the "civilized" West? There are no Iranian nuclear weapons, but there are Western leaders, steeped in Christian Zionist messianism, who dream of a biblical apocalypse and see world domination as the fulfillment of a divine mission. The real nuclear escalation temptation: the shadow of the "Samson Option," that suicidal logic of blowing everything up rather than accepting defeat.

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The Samson Option: Israel’s Plan to Nuke Its Opponents

What’s ambiguous about Israel’s nuclear policy is not whether the country has these weapons, but how it plans to use them.